Wait, maybe she's not really dead. If you Milo just heard she was dead from like Jasper or someone she could still be out there. Or maybe the expedition is just overdue and she is surviving out in the wastelands. So later they go out, and Milo doesn't really die either he finds her and they hang out together in the little oasis of paradise.

Could happen. Jenny, if you right that in the next update I'll....I'll....think of something?